Quote Judder Man="Judder Man"For me that doesn't say a lot for the rest of the team, Walmsley, Richards and Sav are not playing well this year, Greenwood and Thompson have only just started coming up with expected performances, Tasi is still under review. In my opinion its Amor, Vea and LMS who are the consistent performers so far and doing the longer workload minutes.
I think it was way back in 2012 when LMS was a waste of space, we lost James Graham to OZ and our pack couldn't take up the workload rate, LMS was expected to take that extra load but he didn't and became a "high five showboater", as St Pete says he picked up a bit when he was under contract review. Since then he was nominated to one of the "senior player" responsibility roles and in my view he has been doing OK with the exception of his discipline moments, I think LMS is the least of our worries and is one for future review at a later date.'"
Just because he's a lower priority worry, doesn't mean he's not a worry - same with Vea. I think were in a position where we have a group of senior players who, as a group aren't where they need to be (whether that's because they're not good enough, or the coaching and tactics aren't good enough could be debated until the cows come home). I think a lot of fans (myself included) would prefer to see the club gutted of this group, and start again with our recruitment moving forward. Whilst the agreed intelligence says that a settled squad with minor changes every year is the key to consistent success, every now and then it is necessary to wipe the board clean (and its easy to point to Warrington's early season success this year compared to last year).
All that aside, LMS fundamentally isn't an international class backrower. With the cap space we should free up this year, there is the opportunity to chase players who are in that bracket (such as, imo the 3 I named) - if we cant get the right person on the right deal, and give LMS a 1 year extension while we keep looking, its not as bad as having to keep some others on the ooc list - but if we can its "thanks for the effort, best of luck" from me.
